Recent content by Tempestuousfury

I have definitely waited a while to do a water change. After having done one I had about 50%, the readings were zero ammonia zero nitrite five nitrate. There was however a bunch of organic matter that I ended up removing so Water Quality was an issue but unfortunately it’s not a parameter that I...

Attached are the relevant images. Multiple rainbows have fin rot and mouth growths; one has a body lesion. I’m looking for an id and relevant treatment, please. My searches keep including melafix, so I’m not trusting the responses I find through them. Please and thank you!

That makes sense. Unfortunately, I could not accommodate a selection process; choosing the gender seemed to be the best bet. I initially had a female gold with him, but she passed away within days of getting her. I'll keep monitoring the situation as things have quieted down a bit. I'm loathe...

I have a gold and a blue variant. Here are the pictures. I apologize for not getting a picture of the full dorsal fin, but he only let loose when facing me. The blue ram is new and getting bullied so I can't get better pictures. Thanks for the help!

Yup. I was close to 10k posts my senior year of high school (2005). The servers also changed or what have you, so the post counts are off as well. Coming back so many years later... I just got my first "liked" award today. B-)

I can absolutely understand that; I assumed that the fish meal being the main ingredient would have made it edible enough. My yoyo loaches tend not to have a problem with them in the other tank; I assume they have a more varied palette... Thanks!

I dropped in a 1/4 wafer into the tank right before turning of the ambient light. The tank has 6 pygmy corydoras, 2 kuhli loaches (trying to get more, I know, I know), and 4 otocinclus. As the main ingredients are perfectly fine for the non algae-eaters, I assumed this would be gone by...

I just purchased a group of six yesterday, and they are rather amazing. The rather short lifespan is quite a downside, so I was wondering what the likelihood is of fry surviving to adulthood with: heavy plants floating and grounded mops golden pearls 5-50 micron, one type of smaller food (e.g...